Our impact goal is to ship 1 million readcycled books every year.
We need to raise £200,000 a year in cash donations from our donors, sponsors and beneficiaries to achieve this goal.
Sign up with a monthly donation of £5 or more and become one of our core supporters. Your donation and that of 3,000 other monthly sponsors go to our 1 Million Books Fund, which is used to help achieve our impact goal. You’ll also be able to arrange free collections of donated items from your address and attend our Sponsors Zoom Meetings.
Make a single donation towards a shipment of books to our approved projects in Africa. You can choose a shipment type below and it’ll be shipped and delivered to our approved beneficiaries in Africa. When you sponsor a container shipment, your name will appear at the entrance of the beneficiary’s library, and we’ll send you an Impact Video from a beneficiary to use for your CSR and promotional purposes. You’ll also be acknowledged as the sponsor on Impact Reports published on the impact page of our website.
Select a shipment type that matches the level of impact you wish to make.
A small cardboard box containing 1 refurbished laptop with Windows 10 Pro licence, a Namene Solar reading light and access to digital books online via our partners Perlego and Britannica Kids. You can choose what online digital platform you prefer when applying.
Shipping and Delivery
A donation of £200 covers the processing and shipping costs from the UK to a beneficiary in Africa. The shipment is dispatched by DHL air freight after funds are received, and it arrives within 3-5 days.
A giant cardboard box carrying an average of 1,000 books – enough to fill 3 shelves and equip a classroom library. You can request multiple pallets but can only choose one category of books per pallet when applying. Each pallet is 100 x 120 x 120cm and weighs 500kg.
Shipping and Delivery
A donation of £500 funds the processing and shipping costs from the UK to a beneficiary in Africa. The shipment is dispatched by sea freight after receiving your funds, and arrives within 90 days.
A 20ft container carrying an average of 20,000 books – enough to fill 60 shelves and equip a school library. You can choose what categories of books to include in your shipment when applying. Each container is 20ft x 8ft and weighs 10,000kg.
Shipping and Delivery
A donation of £5,000 funds the processing and shipping costs from the UK to beneficiaries in Africa. The shipment is dispatched by sea freight after receiving your funds, and arrives within 90 days.
A 40ft container carrying an average of 40,000 books – enough to fill 120 shelves and equip a university library. You can choose what categories of books to include in your shipment when applying. Each container is 40ft x 8ft and weighs 20,000kg.
Shipping and Delivery
A donation of £8,000 funds the processing and shipping costs from the UK to beneficiaries in Africa. The shipment is dispatched by sea freight after receiving your funds, and arrives within 90 days.
Sponsors who fund a container shipment receive an impact video from a beneficiary project.
Ninety Foundation’s objective is the prevention or relief of poverty through the provision of grants to charities, or other organisations, and the provision of investment to advance commerce in socially and economically disadvantaged communities by achieving economic growth and regeneration.
We have shipped more than 3,000,000 books to projects across Africa thanks to our sponsors. Impact Reports are published on our website when received from our projects.
“Having access to the books has made them become much keener in planning their lessons. They are discovering new and exciting ways to teach and impart knowledge.”
“The books we received have greatly increased the number of books we’re able to lend to children at the school. The staff also have access to borrowing books to use in their classrooms.”
You can find Books2Africa on the following fundraising platforms
We are grateful for the individuals and organisations who sponsor container shipments of books and computers to help us achieve our mission and to all who have supported Books2Africa in various ways over the years.
We try our best to get your order to you as soon as possible. After dispatch, our standard delivery (Royal Mail First Class) typically arrives the next day in the UK (but can take up to 7 days), in 6 days to the EU and 10 days worldwide. It is important to note that delivery times are out of our control, as we do not deliver the goods ourselves.
If the error is ours, we will reprint free of charge. If the error is yours, we will reprint for 25% of the original amount. If we have sent you the wrong size garment, we will absolutely remake it for you in the right size when you return it.
The guidance measurements given next to the shirts are supposed to represent what size person they fit. They are not the actual measurements of the garment itself, which naturally need to be larger than the person they are designed to fit.
Firstly, please ignore the washing instructions in the garment itself. These are for blank garments and not printed ones.
Wash your shirts at 40 degrees or less. Iron on reverse (cool). Do not tumble dry.
Whilst Royal Mail normally deliver all first class post within 1-2 working days, they can on occasion take longer. In the unlikely event that your goods do not arrive, allow 7 days before calling us. We cannot authorise any remakes before this time has passed as Royal Mail have been known to deliver within this time.
However, if you paid to have Express delivery, contact us immediately as we can provide you with the tracking reference to chase it with the carrier.
